These contract free plans always suck though. I'd love to be able to pay only for what I use but they always have fine print that kills a ton of your credits. The contract free version becomes so much more expensive.

These contract free plans always suck though. I'd love to be able to pay only for what I use but they always have fine print that kills a ton of your credits. The contract free version becomes so much more expensive.

To which "credits" are you referring? If indeed they go that route for all plans, then I doubt it will have the negatives you anticipate._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.

These contract free plans always suck though. I'd love to be able to pay only for what I use but they always have fine print that kills a ton of your credits. The contract free version becomes so much more expensive.

To which "credits" are you referring? If indeed they go that route for all plans, then I doubt it will have the negatives you anticipate.

you have to look at the contract. "no contract" is advertised when they really mean "no long term contract." there's still a contract. i think it was metroPCS that got sued for this a few years ago.

verizon uses a month-to-month system for smartphones. you pay a month fee for unlimited text and talk, and then they charge you extra for going over your bandwidth. with most of the others, they use a credit system, where you prepay for credits. then they charge you a dollar or more for each day that your phone makes or receives a call or text, and same with data transmission. then they charge you on top of that for the actual volume used. it gets really expensive really quickly.

I'm looking for no early termination fees, no subsidies, no subsidy increased permanent monthly fee. Which sounds like what this article is describing. ~$25/mo to pay for your phone if you choose, but only on top of the standard monthly rates (not mentioned). TMo has previously offered reduced monthly fee plans for non-subsidized phones, so it seems plausible. As for bandwidth, I think Sprint is the only one with unlimited usage (on their network)._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.